Casa do Mancha (Mancha’s House) is a recording studio, a stage for bands and, until recently, his home.

Mancha, who are you?
Fuck… I’m a hillbilly that came from pantanal. From a city close to the limits of São Paulo with Mato Grosso do Sul state. I am a country mouse in a big town. And I got some of both in me.

What brought you here?
I am here because of the music. When we grow up, we loose the ability to get stunned by things. But music continued to have this power over me. And I let this passion guide me.

Why do you do what you do?
During the last serious talk I had with my father before he passed away, was about what I was doing. He asked me: “You are thirty now. What else can you do?” And I answered: “Nothing”. “Then make what you do well”.

What do you think makes Casa do Mancha a special place?
A friend of mine came by one day and said: “This place is amazing, because it’s honest. We see the roof you added to the outside and we notice you did it and not some architect”. And everything here is like that.

What’s the part of what you do you enjoy most?
It’s when I’m alone, with my guitar or any other instrument, creating something. It’s from that kind of moment everything appears.

What inspires you?
From two extremes, because it’s about where I came from and where I am going, my father and my daughter inspire me. One makes me think of what I did. The other, where I want to be.

In May 2012, a small group of talented professionals sat down at a table for 5 days to work on a project. Their brief: to make people love something about São Paulo. Among them, there were journalists, designers, coders, bloggers, poker players and beer makers. They were led by Alex Bec and Will Hudson, the founders of It's Nice That – a company that has mastered how to champion creativity in different platforms. Tudo Bem, Tudo Bom is the result of their week at the table.

Mesa&Cadeira (that’s Table&Chair) believes in learning through doing. Mesas are workshops in which participants sit together at a table and work on a real project. At the head of the table, someone who’s brilliant at his/her field. www.mesaecadeira.org/en